James Jay Carafano: Chuck Hagel begins knifing the Pentagon

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They called him “Cap the Knife.”

Big budgets didn’t intimidate Caspar Weinberger. After all, he’d been the state finance director for California. Washington ran pretty much the same way. “You just had to add about nine zeros to everything,” he said.

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